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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7657, 16 June 1896, Page 4

In an article on "The oldest Family in the World," a contemporary says : —About a dozen of the 400 barona in tho British House of Lords date back to 1400, the earliest being 1264. The oldest family in the British Isles is the Mar family of Scotland, 1093. The Campbells of Argyle, to whom belongs the present Duke of Argyll, began in 1190. Talleyrand dates from 1199, Bismarck from 1270. the Grosvenor family, tho Dukes of Westminster, 1066 ; the Austrian house of Hapsburg goes back to 952, and the house of Bourbon to 864. The descendants of Mohammed, born 570, are all registered carefully and authoritatively in a book kept in Mecca by the chief of the family Little or no doubt exists of the absolute authenticity of the long line of Mohammed's descendants. In China there are many old families, also among the Jews. " But," says our contemporary, " when it comes to pedigrees there is one gentleman to whom the world must take off its hat, not as facile princeps or primus inter pares, but as a great and only noneanch. This is the Mikado of Japan." Hiß place has been filled by members of his family for more than 2500 years. The present Mikado is the 122 nd of the line. The first one was contemporary with Nebuchadnezzar, 666 years before Christ,

Anyone who has children will rejoice with L. B. Mulford, of Plainfield, N. J. His little boy, five years of age, was sick with croup. Ifor two days and nights he tried various remedies recommended by friends and neighbors. He says : " I thought sure I would lose him. I had seen Chamberlain's Cough Remedy advertised, and thought 1 would try it as a last hope, and am happy to say that afler two doses he blept until morning. I gave it to him next day, and a euro waa effected. I keep this remedy in the house now, and as soon as any of my children show signs of croup I give it to them, and that is the last of it." l<"or sale by E. D, Smith, wholesale and retail agent. — Advfc.

The D.I.C, Wellington, is a deservedly popular institution. Many of our thrifty and fashionable people find it to their advantage to order their requirements in drapery and house-furnishing from the Company's Wellington Warehouse. Reliable goods, at moderate prices, is the feature of the D.I.C. Samples and catalogues are mailed post free to any address. — Advt.